Asking The Russians
Back in 2010 when Pennsylvania, New York, Delaware, Maine and Massachusetts were legislatively moving towards allowing expanded gaming I knew this was the decline and fall of Atlantic City as a casino destination, and it was. But before it all this happened I decided to experience the historic AC boardwalk and it's 12 casinos. There were two things that instantaneously jumped out about this storied seaside location. There were at least 100 feral cats underneath the boardwalk and Russians everywhere. And I mean everywhere. Russians in the smallest casino like the AC Hilton once frequented by Frank Sinatra, Russians in the then newly opened Borgata which is like a multi-level Walmart Supercenter with slot machines. And the boardwalk itself of course. There were russians everywhere and I decided to find out why. All of them spoke in broken english if they spoke it at all most wouldn't even make eye contact with me and re...